Simply Living

Welcome! Simply Living links to over 210 organizations and web sites on peace, the environment, sustainability and more. Check our complete list of links. Central Ohio residents, see our calendar of events and our links to other local and regional organizations. To join Simply Living or receive our newsletter, Simply News (link opens PDF copy), at home, click here.

<B>Sustainability Now! Strategies for Personal and Community Action</A> <BR>A Joint Conference of Simply Living and the Social Responsibility Initiative of the Ohio State University CFAES <BR>May 16 & 17, 2008 <BR>OSU Agricultural campus complex</B>

Sustainability Now! features sustainability activist Jim Merkel, author of Radical Simplicity, workshops, special programming for middle and high school youth, and much more.
Connect with fellow citizens who are building sustainability through creative, powerful and effective actions.
Register and learn more at http://sri.osu.edu/sustainabilitynow/.

Friday, May 16th - keynote by Author Jim Merkel: Radical Sustainability
7 p.m. at the new Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center
Registration begins at 6:30 p.m.
2201 Fred Taylor Dr. (just west of the Schottenstein Arena)
Parking across the street

Saturday, May 17th - Conference, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
Morning plenary: Sustainability as a Social Justice Issue
Agricultural Administration Auditorium, 2120 Fyffe Rd.
Parking adjacent to building

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Simply Living's homegrown programs, projects and resources

  • Eastern Heartland Earth Institute
    A sister project of the Northwest Earth Institute, EHEI offers discussion courses on Voluntary Simplicity, Deep Ecology, Discovering a Sense of Place, Choices for Sustainable Living, Globalization and Its Critics, and Healthy Children - Healthy Planet. Interested? Call 614/447-0296 or e-mail sarah@simplyliving.org.

  • Global Warming, Peak Oil and What It Means for Us
    New! This learning group discusses issues related to global warming and oil depletion with a focus on what we can do as individuals and as part of a community. Click for participant-suggested resources on energy, global warming, peak oil, sustainability and more. The Peak Oil learning group has also created an energy reduction resource list that describes personal ways to use less energy and reduce Global Warming emissions.

  • WCRS / Simply Listen Radio
    WCRS 98.3/102.1 LPFM: a project of Simply Living, broadcasts 3 pm to 8 pm daily. We are broadcasting locally-produced programs and programming available through the Pacifica Network.

  • Clintonville Community Market
    Visit our food co-op, resource center & gathering space in Columbus, Ohio; a collaborative project of Simply Living and the Calumet Natural Foods Co-op. Join the CCM's Yahoo! Group with your Yahoo! account. In Find a Group, search for CommunityMarket.

Global resources on the WWW

  • A Sense of Place
    Links to affinity organizations and other resources in our own bioregions - central Ohio, the state of Ohio, the Ohio River Valley, and Appalachia.

  • If I Had a Hammer
    Tools for living simply and sustainably: links to voluntary simplicity, energy efficiency, and resource wisdom sites -- and your local library

  • Your Money AND Your Life
    Links about economics large and small, including cooperatives, earth-friendly retailers, green investing, and how to use money wisely.

  • Bake Sales for Bombers
    Peace, social justice, and activist links; groups working to bring about political, corporate, social and environmental transformation.

  • A Circle Ever Wider
    Living in harmony with a family, neighborhood, organized group or intentional community

  • We Belong to the Earth
    Environmental organizations and other ecology-minded links

  • Soul for the Food
    Agriculture, gardening and foodways links from seed to harvest

  • Food for the Body
    Cooking and eating: the human gift from harvest to table

  • Body for the Soul
    Holistic and alternative healing, wellness and healthy living links

  • The Peace Which Passeth Understanding
    Spirituality, philosophy, wholeness and ecumenism links

Complete list of web sites linked from our resource pages!

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Learn about emergence by reading this article, "Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale" by Meg Wheatley and Deborah Friezeby.

Becoming the change we seek for the world, Simply Living is an organization based in Central Ohio, USA, whose members and friends share a desire to live more lightly and joyfully by learning and practicing environmental awareness, sustainability, and voluntary simplicity.
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Last updated May 12, 2008. Peace.